Author: Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Barnes is a writer of poetry, essays, and short fiction. Her work appears regularly in online and print journals, and has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She is Books Editor and Creative Writing Editor for Lucy Writers Platform, and was guest editor of their 2020 Life in Languages series exploring languages and translation. She splits her time between England, France, and Spain (never speaking the right language in the right country), and is working on collections of poetry and hybrid essays. Find her online at http://elodierosebarnes.weebly.com, and on Twitter @BarnesElodie.

Poetics of Work by Noémi Lefebvre: an exciting, provocative piece of art

7th April 20217th April 2021 Elodie Rose Barnes

Noémi Lefebvre’s second novel rips apart the structures of late capitalism and nationalism in layered, complex and humorous prose. Elodie Barnes explores the book, and talks to publisher Cécile Lee of Les Fugitives.

Taking A Long Look: an exhilarating journey through Vivian Gornick’s criticism

7th March 2021 Elodie Rose Barnes

Vivian Gornick’s latest collection of essays on literature, culture and feminism demonstrates the power of the voice in personal journalism.

Languages Are Good For Us: exploring the restless soul of language

16th February 202117th February 2021 Elodie Rose Barnes

In her new book Languages Are Good For Us, Sophie Hardach traces the rich, creative threads of language history, from the earliest clay records to today.

Interview with publisher and translator Denise Rose Hansen: ‘Reading parochially would be too much to bear’

3rd February 20213rd February 2021 Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes talks to Lolli Editions founder Denise Rose Hansen about work in translation, reading across borders, the novel as art, & publishing during lockdown.

‘Insomnia’ and other poems by Elodie Rose Barnes

19th January 202120th January 2021 Elodie Rose Barnes

Sleeplessness gives way to the dreamy promise of luscious fruits, beautiful bodies and fantastical lands in Elodie Rose Barnes’ poetry, inspired, in part, by Leonora Carrington and H. D.

Interview with acclaimed poet & novelist, Rosie Garland: ‘Rosie Lugosi, my alter-ego lesbian vampire queen, was all about disobedient queerness’

12th January 202112th January 2021 Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes talks to author, performer and singer, Rosie Garland, about discovering the magic of words as a child, being an outsider, the importance of reading poetry out loud and the feminist gothic found in her novels.

The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento: in conversation with translators Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan

20th December 202010th March 2021 Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes explores the epic English and Spanish poetry anthology, The Sea Needs No Ornament / El mar no necesita ornamento, and talks to its translators, Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan, about the translation process, empowering women writers from the Caribbean and the literary history behind the poems.

Sissal Kampmann’s Darkening / Myrking: Poems in Faroese & interview with translator Marita Thomsen

17th November 202018th November 2020 Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes reviews Sissal Kampmann’s Faroese poetry collection, Darkening/Myrking, and speaks to translator Marita Thomsen about translating Kampmann’s work, Faroese weather, gender in language, and reading translated texts.

Interview with translator Jennifer Russell: ‘Different languages open up different things in the mind’

9th November 20209th November 2020 Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes talks to translator Jennifer Russell about translating Amalie Smith’s masterful new novel, Marble, the hybridity and liminality of translation, the brilliance of Danish sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, new projects with writer Ursula Scavenius and more.

Interview with acclaimed writer, translator & musician, Jen Calleja

20th October 202021st October 2020 Elodie Rose Barnes

Writer, translator and musician, Jen Calleja, talks to Elodie Rose Barnes about her journey into translation, working on the Booker International shortlisted novel The Pine Islands, her PhD and fairy tale-inspired pamphlet, Goblins.

Rosie Garland’s What Girls Do In The Dark

19th October 202019th October 2020 Elodie Rose Barnes

In Rosie Garland’s enchanting new collection of poetry, What Girls Do In The Dark, we’re invited to take a leap into the unknown, embrace darkness in all its forms, and encounter girls who morph and burn brightly.

Chapter 3: The Art of Translating a Life

5th October 202013th October 2020 Elodie Rose Barnes

In her third chapter of the series, Elodie Rose Barnes walks the streets of Paris trying to uncover fragments of Djuna Barnes’ relationship with Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and her attempt to write a biography of the Dada artist’s life.